Saturday, February 7, 2015

Sandy Benitez- Three Poems

I hear the sound of trampling,little feet hopping in circles abovewhile high-pitched gigglespierce the blue sky until it bleeds rain.

A frayed ribbon lies abandonedupon the wet, inviting earthand now there is only silencescattered like tiny bird bones.

Where has all the life gone?The sound of weeping haunts me.A man whistles while shoveling his thoughtsback into the ground, dark and deep.

I cannot feel my body nor speak.Days ago I lost my breath,waited for its return but it strayed.Now I lay here unable to sleep,

memories of yesterday cold and damp.

Free Fall into Forget

Shadowed by the wooden shouldersof a rundown cedar bridge,I knelt behind the guardraillike a soldier readying her weapon.

Wings that I had never knownspread wide a heartbeat apart.Muted indigo and emerald once my camouflage

was now a pearlescent, feathery coatdisplayed with pride.The river moved along its pebbled road,smoothing every stone to truth.

I reached inside a hidden pocketof lint and sorrowfragile as moth wings.I tied your name to a lonely twig,

let it free fall into forget.

Flutter House

Secreted in her house of wild roses,poetry, and thickets of pearly boneshe cautiously opens the front doorunder a painted sky ever violet and veiled.

There is birdsong not her own,unfamiliar the music enchants,shakes the sturdy walls she built;her back bending like a broken tree.

The corridors to her hearta labyrinth of quiet and strange musings.Solve the riddle and you may stay.There are unwritten songs to be sung,

splayed on the surface of a burnt tongue.

Sandy Benitez is the founder & editor of Poppy Road Review, Black Poppy Review, and Flutter Press. Her latest chapbook, The Lilac City, was published by Origami Poems Project. Sandy's most recent work has been published in The Artistic Muse: Pohemians, Houseboat,The Missing of the Birds, The Kentucky Review, and The Blue Hour.
She’s been nominated for the Pushcart, Best of the Web, and Best of the
Net. Sandy resides in Southern California with her husband and two
children.